Re:Jurassic Park computer system in the browser
by itsnotvalid on Monday March 03, 2014 @11:59AM
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Worst thing is when a movie did most things with real UI being thought as mocking things up. So latter movies increasingly use fake UIs instead.
Re:Jurassic Park computer system in the browser
by Kiro on Monday March 03, 2014 @02:38PM
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I don't understand.
Re:Jurassic Park computer system in the browser
by nitrogen on Monday March 03, 2014 @01:52PM
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Sometimes life imitates art -- I spent a good amount of time in high school making my Linux system's bootup and login screens look like those on Hackers.
Re:Jurassic Park computer system in the browser
by vidarh on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @09:00AM
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I suspect in SGI's case it was probably mostly another demo to show off their graphics capabilities. Nobody used it, but everyone I know who tried out the SGI boxes at uni had their five minutes of fun with it.
Things like that and running xearth as the background when logging in on the Indy's made them stand out massively next to the Sun boxes with monochrome terminals in our computer labs, which seemed ancient and outdated.
Heck, even booting them, with their nice blue gradient background and metallic frame around the window where the boot messages scrolled by set them apart from the boring Sun boxes. SGI early on had a lot of the design sense and flair that Apple has today.
Re:Jurassic Park computer system in the browser
by SimHacker on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @12:41PM
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Anybody remember "Buttonfly"? Now THAT was actually USEFUL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826qq6pslJk
http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=...
It's admirable that SGI was experimenting with interfaces. However in this situation having to navigate such an interface created a very real safety hazard. I suppose she could have used the regular file browser instead - or perhaps the substantially less exciting XTerm.